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Re Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal access to justice for injured workers

Network urges the Tribunal to address the flood of appeals resulting from the increase in WSIB negative decisions by ensuring they have adequate resources to continue their high standards of administrative justice – to reduce delays without cutting back on oral hearings.…

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Submission re the proposed changes in the Appeals System

Group questions why speeding up the system requires limiting their rights to oral hearings, why modernization requires complicating the current process, and why has the downside risk form been added? Submission includes their recommendations to make the appeals system more efficient.…

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Submissions on WSIB consultation paper: Modernization of WSIB appeals program

Noting the backlog can be addressed without such dramatic means, IWC brief provides detailed analysis of the deeply flawed proposed changes which encroach on the right to appeal and the right to a fair hearing by injured workers. IWC calls for their…

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What will your office tell an injured worker wanting to launch an appeal?

Open letter to all Ontario MPPs alerting them to the requirement in WSIB’s “modernisation” of the appeals system that makes injured workers sign a formal ‘acknowledgment of risk’ – the (downside) risk that if they go ahead with the appeal, the WSIB…

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Submissions – WSIB Appeals Modernization Consultation

Brief disputes the Consultation paper’s analysis of the reason for the appeals backlog, attributing it rather to a change in Operations-level decision-making that arises from upper management’s decision to control benefits without policy change. Details concerns with limiting oral hearings and downside…

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